The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-15 00:00:00

CALCUT "A MAIL, By the Overland Mail we are in receipt of de. spatches from Calcutta to July 8, Madras July 14, and Hong-Kong June 29. INDIA. The Englishman, in its general summary, states that— " One of the top;cs of general discussion since our last overland has been the newly-started project for building wharves, docks, &c., for Calcutta. The subject is of great interest to all who have to do with India, and a report of the engineers, Messrs. Brereton and Burden, has been addressed to the provisional directors of the Calcutta Wet Dock and Wharf Company on the subject. The want of dock accommodation is patent to all in Calcutta. The necessity for the improvement of this port has been felt for more than 30 years, and for more than 30 years have merchants and chambers of commerce been pressing the question on the attention of the Government, and, though not rejected, have been allowed to fall into neglect as complete as if rejected. All who know anything of Calcutta will see at once the absurdity of the ' health' difficulty. There are far worse collections of water about Calcutta than well kept docks are likely to be, the breeze blowing from them at Chitpore would be no worse than that blowing from them at Kidderpore, and as Garden Reach is by far the most convenient place for their construction, we trust that the company will be strong to overrule such absurd objections, and pro ceed with their scheme as soon as possible. "With regard to Bhootan the recent proceedings of Government tend to strengthen our previously impressed conviction that the viceroy will not allow the insults heaped upon the Briti s h envoy to pass unpunished. Active preparations have been going oa in the arsenal, and we have been recently in• formed that Captain Lance, of the Bengal Staff corps, has been sent to th e nor th- east front i er to collect information regarding the Bengal Dooars, and the hill country on the left bank of the Teesta, to the west of Dalimkhote. His duty will, we bee liev e, be to acquire all the knowledge he can of the country, the roads, the passes iato Bhootan, and the sources from which supplies can be obtained, in the case of the Dooars being occupied, or an expedition sent into Bhootan. He has also been ordered to do all in his power to ascertain the temper of the dif. ferent classes of the population in the Bhootan territory on the other side of the border, the view they are likely to take of British interference in the affairs of Bhootan, the quarters from which assist ance may be expected, whether any of the Bhootan chiefs would side with the English Government in an endeavour to obtain a satisfactory settlement of future relations between the two states, and what inducements might lead them to adopt this course. The same officer has been authorised to levy an auxiliary force in Cooch Behar. " Money continues very easy, and there appears no immediate reason for expecting any change. Exchange slightly improved on the arrival of the China steamers, but is receding again. Bank shares are not so much in request, but the share market generally is buoyant, particularly for tea companies. Produce now arrives freely, all the rivers being open, and it is taken up as fast as it comes, there being no heavy stocks of produce in the market. The indigo prospects are poor, heavy and continued rains have done much damage in Bengal ; dry weather has kept back Tirhoot crops, and drought has nearly destroyed the Khoontee crops of Benares. But much was never expected from the north-west, in consequence of the demand for land for cotton ; on the whole, there is every probability of the crop falling short of that of last year. The import market is very dull. The long-expected demand from the interior has not arrived, and it is difficult to account for this slowness. It is said that weavers have be gun to weave English yarn again; if so, twists will soon be in request ; there is even now some slight movement in them, " In a former number we alluded to the sitting of a secret committee in England, appointed for the purpose of deciding whether it would be advisable to take over all the French possessions in India except Pondicherry an I Karikal, and on what terms. We now hear that the French authorities here have demanded an enormous sum, rather more than three crores—for Chandernagore alone, stating that the sum realised by the sale of stamps exceeds the actual value of the land. The papers have been forwarded to the secret committee at home. We imagined that cur Gallic friends would not place a low value on their possessions here, and especially Chandernagore, the revenue from which is compara tively very large. " A correspondent in Cabul informs us that some of the Sittana Hindustanec fanatics have applied to the Ameer of Cabal for service. The Ameer is said to have replied to them as fellows How can you expect me to trust you when you have already be trayed and rebelled against your benefactors and masters whose salt and bread you ate ?' The men were at once ordered to leave Cabul, and it is re ported that some of them have been endeavouring to recross the Indus. "Letters from the Punjaub inform us that an asylum has been granted at Rawul Pindee to Sirdar Azim Khan, the fugitive brother of the Ameer, who, until matters are settled in Cabal, will be supported by the British Government; an instance of good policy towards these people which they may feel, if not appreciate." _ _ From Madras we learn that his Excellency the Governor left Madras on the 4th instant, accom panied by Lady Denison and his suite, en route to ,the Neilgherries, and safely reached his destination in due course. He will be absent, it is understood, for about three months, but will visit various parts of the country daring that period. The directors of the Madras Bank have declared a dividend for the half-year ending 30th June of 75 rupees per share, being at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum, or 3 per cent. in excess of the dividend for the previous half-year. CHINA AND JAPAN. Political matters remain pretty much in statu quo both in China and Japan. With regard to the former the China Mail an nounces that— '" The officer in command of her Majesty's forces has left his head-quarters in Hong-Kong and gone to Shanghae, probably to make arrangements for the protection of that port in the event of the rebels regaining their lost ground. There is not much likelihood of such a change taking place; but now that matters are out of our hands, it is only proper to be ready for any turn that the present civil con tention may take. " The state of the rebellion is briefly this :—A considerable city named indifferently Woo -chow and Hoo-chow, and situated to the scuth of the Tae hoo lake, is held by a large body of rebels, and is most strongly fortified by means of stockades. In addition to these the rebels have pitched a camp outside the walls, and, not confining themselves to the defensive, they make occasional sallies upon the besieger; who have as yet been able to do no more than hold their own. The latter number, according to the latest accounts, scarcely 8,000, including a force of 1,600 disciplined troops under command of General D'Aiguebelle. The rebels have hitherto been able to keep their opponents at a distance of 20 miles from the city, but the country round about is so completely in the hands of the Imperialists that all gUPplies to the rebels are likely to be cut off. It is impossible to say how long this state of things may continue. Two chiefs are reported as having surrendered to the Imperialists, with 5,000 men, and to be engaged on the side of the besiegers. T h i s m ay only be a stratagem of war, for we hear that traitors are suspected of being at work in the Imperial army. ‘Of the Taepings who Were dispersed we have heard nothing beyond a rumour, which has never been corroborated, to the effect that they had ap , peered in marauding bands somewhere in the north of the Canton province. "Besides Woo-chow, Nankin alone is held by the rebels, and is closely invested by a large army under Tseng liwofan. Some successes are reported as having been gained by the Imperialists on the north side of the c i ty, bat few peop l e acq uainted with Chinese warfare will be sanguine of immediate or decided success by the besieging army. The fact that Tseng Kwo•fatt is opposed to the idea of being assisted by Europeans is probably significant of a desire to prolong matters. On the whole, however, there are no good reasons for supposing that the rebellion will not eventually be crushed, although there is room to fear that the troubles connected with it are far from being at an end. It was rumoured in Shanghae lately that Burglivine and others, taking advantage of Colonel Gordon's retirements from the field, had proceeded to Nan• kin with the view of again the rebels, This rumour has since been contradicted, but whether the original statement or the subsequent contradic tion is correct it is impossible to say. Shanghae is a hotbed of intrigue with regard to the rebellion, owing to the fact that property there rises or falls according to the current events in connection with the insurrection. Colonel Gordon is in Shanghae, but nothing transpires as to his intentions ; most likely he awaits the arrival of General Brown before taking h n y steps in the way of further assisting the Impe rialists. " With regard to Japan we are not likely to hear of any change in our relations for some little time to come. The matter at present pending is the opening of the Inland Sea, which has been olosed for some time by the Prince of Nagato, who caused the shipping to be molested in passing through the Straits of Shimonoseki. The 20th Regiment is on its way to Japan, and the Conqueror has reached Yokoama with a battalion of marines. Nothing has transpired as to the course that Sir R. Alcock will adopt, further than that he is determined to reopen the Inland Sea to foreign vessels. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, TAFF VALE. The directors of this company have decided on declaring a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum for the half year ended the 30th of Jane last. The dividend for the corresponding half-year of 1863 was at the rate of 9 per cent. per annum. GREAT NORTHERN. The directors of this company state in their re port that the capital account stands as follows; — Received to the 30th of June, £13,144,236, and ex pended,£l2,B97,9l3, leaving a balance of £246323. The total expenditure on capital account during the half-year was £168,590, of which £31,120 had been paid for land and £46,145 for works, come prising of the King's-cross goods and coal stations, the widening of the line and additional sidings at and near London, and sundry works necessary to accommodate the traffic at ♦arious other points. The subscriptions to other undertakings connected with the company amounted to £76,200. Twenty new engines and 500 waggons suitable for the car riage of goods and coal had been contracted for to meet the requirements of the traffic. The new ordinary stock was allotted to the proprietors, and £782,990 stock out of a total of £837,040 was duly taken up, including the premiums and calls paid in advance£43B,762 had been received thereon. The gross receipts for th; past half-year amounted to £833,814, the gross expenditure to £441,453, leaving a balance of £392,361. To this was added £213, from the preceding half-year and £8,400 due from the Eastern Counties Railway Company, making £400,974, against £328,679 for the corre sponding half of 1863, showing an increase of £72,295. The fixed charges, including interest on loans and preference shares, amounted to £266,253, leaving a net balance available for ordinary divi dends of £134,721 against £102,599 for the corre sponding half-year of 1863, showing an increase of £32,122. The balance of £134,721 would enable the proprietors to declare a dividend on original stack at the rate of 51 per cent, per annum. In the come sponding half of 1863 the dividend was at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum. For the half-year the proprietors would receive £2 15i per cent. on the original stock, £3 per cent, on the B stock, and £2 10e. per cent, on the A stock, and 17s. 9d. per cent. would be paid on the first instalment of the new ordinary stock, being the proportion of dividend due thereon from th© 2d of May last, leaving a balance of £1,421 for the next account. LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER. A special general meeting of this company was held on Friday at the Grosvenor Hotel, Victoria Station, Pimlico; Lord Sondes in the chair. Mr Johnson, the secretary, read the notice convening the meeting, which was held for the purpose of raising vJrious sums of money authorised by Parliament in the session of 1864. The C HAIRMAN proposed the first resolution, authorising the raising for the City lines of £1,000,060, in 50,000 shares of £2O each, which were to be divided into half preferred and half deferred shares. Lord HAou s seconded the motion. Mr HEDGcocK said he was sorry they had to raise more capital, and wished to know whether any and what amount of Lloyd's bonds had been issued. Mr 1101.110 YD, a director, said the new capital proposed to be raised would considerably more than pay oft all the Lloyd's bonds issued, every one of which they would take up when they got the capital. In reply to further questions, he stated that at the time a greet opposition was raised against crossing Ludgate-hill the purchasing powers of the Act of IS6O were nearly expired, and, therefore, in order to preserve them, they had to pay down £500,000 on behalf of the company for the purchase of the land and houses re quired for the railway. The powers would have lapsed if they had not raised the necessary funds on Lloyd's bonds. They would have a large traffic from the Great Northern and Midland over the line from Earl street to the Metro politan Railway, and also from it north and south over the London, Chatham, and Dover railways. Mr V. KNIGHT complained of the power of directors to issue Lloyd's bonds v - ithout the assent of the shareholders. He held £16,000 in the railway, and did not know whether any of the new stock might not rank before his. Mr HonuoYD assured him that the capital for the city lines was quite distinct from that of the Metropolitan Ex tension. After some observations from Mr P. Carter and Mr Surgey, the motion was carried by 32 against 8. The next resolution authorising the directors to borrow •n mortgage £333,300 on the rates and tolls of the city lines was carried by 31 against 2. The third resolution was to authorise the company to create and issue 60,000 shares of £25, making £1,500,000 of ordinary stock to rank with the £700,000 ordinary stock of the main line from Bickley to Dover. A long discussion on this point ensued, in the course of which 141 r Forb.,,„ the general rosmager, explained that the present traffic, if the line could be worked at 59 per cent, of the receipts, averaged sufficient this year to cover all prefer ence charges down to the Dover preference. As the other lines were opened the traffic would still further increase, so as in the course of a certain time to cover everything. Thu' wero now receiving above £B,OOO a week on that line. Sir C. RoNEY said it was considered the best course to raise money as proposed on ordinary shares, as the present proportion of ordinary stock was too small as compared with the amount of preference stocks. It was explained that the holders of £BOO,OOO third pre ference shares entitled to 6 per cent. had agreed to accept £BOO,OOO in ordinary stock for them, and to surrender the third preference shares for the benefit of the ordinary shares, by which a claim of £48,000 a year, being 6 per cent. on £BOO,OOO, would be given up in favour of the ordinary stock, being equal to li per cent, per annum on the ordinary stock, and thus increasing its value. After considerable opposition the motion was carried, as was also one authorising the directors to borrow on deben tures £500,000, when the new capital was subscribed, and one-half thereof paid up. _ - A. resolution authorising the surrender and exchange of £ B OO,OOO, third preference shares, for the w 51320 amount of ordinary stock. The sum of £220,000 was authorised to be raised for the Metropolitan (Eastern section), in shares of £2O each, to be divided into preferred half shares and deferred half shares, and entitled to dividends not exceeding 6 per cent. Sir M. PET() said he believed the resolutions, when carried out, would be very beneficial to the company. They would have a very large traffic from the Great Northern and Mid land over the company's lines. The traffic on their line was increasing in a wonderful manner, on one mile of line alone to Blackfriars-bridge they received £1,200 a week on the city lines from Earl. street to the Metropolitan railway they could charge a two-mile toll, He considered that the ordi nary stock was worth 40 in consequence of the surrender of the third preference shares. The directors were then authorised to borrow on deben tures £73,300 ,for the Metropolitan (Eastern section), and the proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. HULL AND sELBY. The half-yearly meeting of tb.is company was held at Hull on Friday, Mr J. H. Pease in the chair. The report stated that there was a balance of £33,830 in favour of the company. The directors recommei ided that a dividend be declared of £2 9a 6d per whole or £5O share, and in proportion thereto for the half and quarter shares (subje3t in each case to the deduction of inc ome tax re tained by the lessees), payable on and after Monday, the 29th inst. The seal of the company having been afe zed to the re- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1884. gister of proprietors, resolutions to the above effect were carried, and the meeting separated. WE ST YO RK SHIRE. The report of the directors stated that the expenditure to the 30th of Juno last, exclusive of the Mcthley Railway, had been£3So,773. The receipts for the half-year on revenue account had been £14,438, the working expenses £3,570, leaving a net sum of £10,868 applicable for dividend. The total sum at the disposal of the directors was £20,653 1 out of which they proposed to divide £10,148, leaving £10,C05 for the reserve fund. The directors referred with satisfaction to the steady increase of the general traffic, and stated that the opening of new lines shortly would cause a considerable augmentation of income. The completion of the Batley and Methley branches was an event not far distant, CAMBRIAN: The first half-yearly meeting of this company was held at tha offices, Bridge-street, Westminster, on Saturday, Earl Vane in the chair. The report congratulated the shareholders upon the suc cess of their efforts in the last Session of Parliament, and upon the course of policy which had been pursued. It sAted that the Oswestry and Newtown, Llanidloes and Newtown, Oswestry, Ellesmere, and Whitchurch, and Newtown and Machynlleth railways, had been amalgamated under the title of the Cambrian Railways Company, and their agree ments with the London and North-Western Company had been sanctioned by Parliament. By those means the public interests would be better served. By the opening of the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast line the railway system was complete between Aberystwith and Lancashire and the manufacturing districts of the north on the one hand and London and the south of England on the other. The Mid- Wales line would shortly be opened, by which they would have direct communication with South Wales and the north of England. In an act authorising the leasing of the Shrewsbury and Welshpool line to the North-Western, or to that company and the Greet Western Company, the Cambrian Company obtained the insertion of a clause pre venting anything being done prejudicially to their arrange ments with the North-Western Company. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said ho was firmly of opinion that their railway would prove very profitable if properly managed, because there were ample means for developing and carrying on a large traffic, while their arrangement with the London and North- Western Railway Company would prove of great mutual ad vantage. Mr TooTAL seconded the motion, which was carried, Captain Johns, Mr H. Gartside, Captain Pryce, and Mr D. Williams were then elected directors. The election of other directors was adjourned to the 2d of September. The CHAIRMAN then proposed that a dividend at the rate of £5 15s per cent. per annum be declared upon the ordinary capital, payable on the sth of September. Captain JOHNS seconded the motion, and it was carried: Mr G. Lewis was appointed secretary, and the meeting was adjourned to the 2.d of September. STATE OF TRADE. LEEDS, Friday.—We have to report a quiet trade in the warehouses during the past week. Few buyers hate been in the market one or two of the wholesale London houses have been represented; with this exception there has been comparatively little doing. Fine Utica unions have been the chief things inquired for, and although these goods have not been in such great request as of late, still the supply is not yet equal to the demand, the falling off of which will enable the manufacturers to satisfy the wants of the merchants better than they have been able to do for some time past. Low-priced 'unions have not been much inquired for, and as many manufacturers have been engaged in making this class of goods, the stocks in their hands are now accumulating. Witneys and pilots, in plain and fancy makes, and black all-wool cloths have to a fair extent changed hands. Manufacturers are frilly employed, and rates firmly upheld in all de partments. The increased value of money and the apprehension of higher rates have checked the de• mand for English wool, and little has been done during the week. Many manufacturers are well supplied at present. Clothing wool is in moderate request, and for some sorts at the public sales prices have not been fully maintained. MANCHESTER, Feiday.-0a Tuesday, and still more on Wednesday, the general feeling was one of great depression, and on all sides business was re ported to be at a stand. But there ensued rather more ease in money circles, and the apprehended further addition to the rate of interest did not take place yesterday. A sense of relief has consequently spread over this market, and we have been receiv ing more cheerful reports from both sellers and buyers, especially in the latter part of to-day. Yarn —A limited business has Leen effected by German merchants in 60's to 80's twofolds, and some singles also, including 28's to 32's, and aslow as 12's water, principally on Russian account, and all at fall prices. Something has been done, too, in 50's to 100's mule, but not in 40's, for Calcutta, and in 30's mock water for Bombay. We hear of no transactions for the Levant, unless a little extra hard may have been in tended for that quarter. Manufacturers have ven tured upon cautious and sparing purchases of twist and weft cope and throstle warps. They have, however, scarcely touched 32's twist cops, but they have taken higher numbers, especially of wefts. As regards prices, we may state that, a couple of days back, buyers might have found a weakness among the spinners of short staples, except certain superior articles, which they did not meet with to-day. Naval and Military Intelligence, The Board of Admiralty, consisting of the Duke of Somer set, K.G., Vice -Admiral the Hon. Sir Fred. Grey, K.C.8., Rear-Admiral the Hon, J. R. Drummond, C.B, and Mr Childers, M.P., the Civil Lord, with their secratasy, Lord C. Paget, M.P., diseqsarked on Friday morning from the Admiralty lach,t, at 11 o'clock, at the Royal William Vii. tualling-yarde Plymouth. Their lordships were attended by the Controller of Victualling, Mr Char:ee Richards, the Director of Work's, Capt. Clarke, R.E., and Sir R. Mayne, :11..C.8., Chief Commissioner--and Mr Mallalieu, Inspect ing-Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police. The Com mander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir H. Fremantle, K.C.8., ar rived immediately afterwards. Their lordships were received by Captain Superintendent Douglas Curry, R.N., Com mander Wheeler, the Master-Attendant—Mr Samuel Tris cott, storekeeper—and Mr Thos. Ingram, clerk of works, &o. After inspecting the slaughterhouse and bakery their lordships proceeded to the office of the Capt, Superinten tendent, where they formed a board, and deliberated nearly an hour on some affairs connected with the department. They inspected the store in which the officers' mess traps ore deposited. Quitting the establishment by water they proceeded to the Royal Naval Hospital, through the wards of which they were conducted by the principal medical offi cers. The rooms being erected for the recreation of conva lescent patients were also examined. Having lunched on board the Osborne their lordships proceeded to Torpoint and reviewed the men belongingto the gunnery ship Cam bridge. They were divided into six companies, under com mand of Capt, C. J. F. Ewart, and Lieuts. H. F. Nichol son, Clayton Mitchell, and Cecil Stanley, and deployed into line, broke into open column, formed squares, d.c.. in a very creditable manner. From four field-pieces on the ground a salute of 19 guns was fired. The band of the Royal Adelaide was in attendance. At about five p.m., their lordships went on board the training ship Impreg nable, 78, Capt. Frencis S. Tremlett, in Hamoaze, and inspected the boys at general quarters and gunnery and small-arm drill, as well as sail drill, and examined the register books showing their progress in school. Since the last Admiralty inspection 600 boys have been trained ; the Impregnable, with the Implacable, St Vincent, Bos t cawen, and Wellesley, sends about 3,000 lads annually into ships as they are commissioned, and to vacancies on foreign stations. All boys of 16 capable of passing the examination are rated first class. The sailing brig Squirrel takes them occasionally from Devonport into the Channel for sea exer cise. After short visits to the training ship Impregnable, and the flagship Royal Adelaide, Capt. F. B. P. Seymour, C. 8., the Luke of Somerset and his colleagues landed en Mount Edgcumbe-park. In the evening they dined at Mount Wise with the Port Admiral, and they subsequently were present at the ball under their patronage at Pearse's Royal Hotel, Plymouth, in aid of the funds of the Orphan Asylum. On Friday Earl do Grey and Ripon left Devonport in the steam tender Princess Alice, and inspected Tregantle and Scerasdon forts in Cornwall, and the land defences in Caw sand Bay, at Dhvisand, and on Staddon Heights. In the afternoon Admiral Drumnionl and Mr Childers visited Tregantle. On Saturday morning at 10 o'clock the Lords of the Ad miralty reviewed the men belonging to the Steam Reserve, who are commanded by Capt. Wm. Edmondetone,•C'.B., of the ladus. The inspection took place on the jetty at Key ham stearnsard, and their lordships seemed pleased with the appearance of the force and tfie arrangements for its government. At half-past 10 the Duke of Somerset held a levee at th e s a es of the Adtniral SuperintenJant. while some of his colleagues went on board the new screw kteam ship Mega)ra, 6, in No. 2 dock, fitting for a store transport, and training ship fitzedtteahle, 21, C.ommailder Samuel B. Dolling, in Hanroaze. Shortly after 2 o'cieck the Duke of Somersat, Admiral Sir F. Grey, Admirals Eden and Drummond, Mr Childers, 3.1 P., and Lord Clarence Paget, inspected the Plymouth division of Royal Marines Light Infantry in the 13arrack-square. The division presented arms, and the companies were marched past in slow and quick time. There were under arms 1,061 of all ranks; the present strength is about 1,800, for which number the bar racks since their enlargement have sufficient beds. In 1860 there were but 919 beds. The area of the parade, 369 by 133 feet, will soon be enlarged to 432 by 204 feet, in conse quence of the purchase by the Admiralty of all the eastern side of DurnfJrd-street contiguous to tho barracks. To-morrow the Lords of the Admiralty will reach Ports • mouth, in their steam yacht Enchantress, from Davenport. The Duke of Somerset will hold a levee at the Royal Naval College in Portsmouth Dockyard on Friday next. Naval p b o e s officers intendi ng t o b e p resent must leave t h e ir names as possibly do by dosotahteitr lordshipsheeollege. du T r h in ° g their officialdinner stay at Po r t smout h , on board their yacht; t h e P or t Ad miralearly as they can will and Naval commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir M. Seymour, u.C.8., will entertain their lordships and a large r4rty at the Admiralty -house in the dockyard, and their lordships will patronize the usual ball given each year for the benefit of the Seamen and Marines Orphan Schools at Portsmouth. A naval court martial assembled on board her Majesty's ship Victory at Portsmouth on Saturday for the trial of Lieut. Henry C. Wogan, serving as third lieutenant on board her Majesty's screw troopship Orontes, on a charge of drunkenness. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to dismissal from the Orontes and to lose four years' seniority. The experimental signaling between her Majesty's steamer Pigmy in the Channel, St. Catherine's Down, in the Isle of Wight, and th e S ema phore tower in Ports mouth Dockyard, conducted by Capt. F. Bolton, of the 12th Regiment, an d Commander Colomb, R.N., has been resumed, and will be continued during the visit of the Board of Admiralty to Portsmouth. On Thurs day last at 10 p.m. Vice -Admiral Sir M. Seymour received a message at his residence in the dockyard from the Pigmy in the Channel to the following effect;--" Pigmy at sea, 15 miles off St. Catherine's. Heavy sea running. Has the Admiral any commands ?" The experiments have been attended with the most complete success. A perfect and rapid system of signaling will be established for the conjoint use of the army and navy, which will be of great impor tance in our system of national defence. The Fisgard, flagship of Commodore Dunlop, C,B„ at Woolwich, now undergoing a thorough °valiant at her 'moorings, has been found overrun in many of her timbers with a species of rot and decay, which it is stated will inca pacitate her for any lengthened service, and render useless any attempt at repair so as to fit her for the practice of the heavy guns daily in use for training lads. The masts are likewise rotten and unfit for service. The old frigate, after being withdrawn from the list of her Majesty's line-of battle sliips soon after 1810, was taken up for her present duty, and has been moored off Woolwich dockyard in yearly commission since that period. Her accommodation is con sidered too scanty for present emergencies, and it is comae t inently proposed to replace her by afhip of larger capacity. Captain Blakely's 11-inch oast iron gun, hooped with steel, and which broke one of the hoops-under proof a short time ago, having been repaired, was again proved at the Woolwich butt on S a t ur d ay . Th e gun i s 16 feet long, 43 inches in diameter at the breech, and 20 inches at the muzzle. The gun was fired two rounds, with a charge of 5211 b. of powder, and a cylinder weighing 6101 b. - and showed no signs of strain or damage. Major Freeth, Inspector of Ordnance, Captain Gordon, C. 8., Superinten dent of Military Stores, and other officers were present, and conducted the proof, and also Mr. Campbell, represent ing the Blakely Ordnance Company. The gun, it is stated is manufactured to the order of the British Government, and will now bo despatched to St. PetCrsburg, Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Sir. J. York Scarlett, the Adjutant- Genetal, and Lieutenant. General Sir Richard Airey, Qaartarmastet , General, have left the Horse Guards for a few weeks' leave of absence from their affical duties. The Hilattlays, screw troopship, Oapt. E. Lacy, sailed from Portacarth, on Saturday, for Kingstown with the 53d Regiment on board, under the command of Col. Ha renco. The 53d will disembark from the Himalaya at Kings town, en route for the Curragh. She proceeds to Canada from Kingston with detachments belonging to different regi ments serving in Canada, and will return to Portsmouth with two-thirds of the Guards now serving there. The Urgent, screw troopship, Capt. S. Henderson, will embark at Portsmouth on Tuesday draughts of men to join the service companies of their respective regiments in Ca nada, and will return to Spithoad from Quebec with one third of the Guards now serving in Canada. In consequence of the harness issued to the troops on fo• reign service in numerous cases having been found unfit for use on its arrival, a committee of officers, appointed by the War Department, has been ordered to make an official sur vey of the stores at Woolwich and report on them. The officers, consisting of Lieut.-Col. Austen, commanding the 2d division depot brigade, R.A.—Brigade Major Sherring ton, Military Train—Capt. Fenn, superintendent of the harness depot—and Mr Parkyn, assist.-superintendent of military stores at Woolwich, made the required survey on Saturday last. Various portions of the stores of harness and saddlery were selected by the committee, and subjected to a heavy strain under the hydraulic machinery. Those portions only which bore the test well returned to store. Capt. Andrew Clarke, R.E., is appointed by the Duke of Somerset, Director of Engineering and Architectural Works, in the place of Col. Godfrey T. Greene, whose resignation of that office we announced a few days ago. The following appointments have been made at the Ad miralty :—Commander P. W. Pellew, to the Warrior— Lieut. 0. Morice, to command the Hardy, vice Campbell, superseded—and J, E. Bearcroft, nominated to a naval ca detship. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TIIE " SPECTATOR" ON THE O'CONNELL DEMON STRATION.—There is to our minds something almost impressive in the accounts of the Dublin procession in honour of O'Connell. Englishmen always turn with a sensation of disgust from accounts of Irish ceremonial, and very often they are as right as they are discourteous. Incompleteness is the character. istic of the Celt as completeness is of the Saxon, and the mixture of tawdriness and squalor, bright colour and wretched rags, magnates in uniform and paupers in frieze, brilliant eloquence and rubbishy declamation which make up an Irish demonstration, will never be tolerable to a people who least of all nations understand the Oriental . = with which the true Milesian is so deeply tinged. On this occasion, however, the imagination, which in Ireland as in Asia so often does duty for the heart, was honestly touched, the people gave themselves up to their own ideas, and every incident was marked by a genius utterly alien indeed from our own, perhaps inferior in type, certainly inferior in results, but none the less real and worthy of respect. The middle class Englishman who despises it despises also the poet who can only sing songs which stir millions for generations, but who has no capacity for making a fortune or even perhaps earnitag his daily bread. The banners were we dare say tawdry enough, Irishmen are pretty sure to concentrate themselves on the device and leave the streamers ragged, just as Englishmen are sure to have their silk all perfect and their devices grotesque; but imagine an English crowd adhering in that way to a central idea, and that idea a memory of the past ! In the long pro cession which took two hours in passing each point, and must have numbered therefore two hundred thousand persons, thoasands of disconnected minds had been at work, yet there was not a device, or a banner, or a scarf which did not strive to recall a lost nationality. Always that green colour, always that sad Hibernia—the figure which runs through all Irish sculpture, and poetry, and caricature, as if the very soul of the wittiest race in Europe had been steeped in melancholy—always the harp, and the crown, and the emblems telling of a time which never existed, but which lives in the popular ima gination as if h had but just passed away. The symbols were present on the trades' banners, on the flags of the societies, even on the grotesque ensign the Adam and Eve with which the Dublin tailors, by a bull only Irishmen could have devised, indi cate their trade. Imagine an appeal to the tradi tions of Essex or Suffolk ploughmen or artisans ! Only in Ireland of the three kingdoms would a procession so full of symbols have been appreciated, only in Ireland could that strange air of sad memory have been thrown over a great popular demonstra tion, only in Ireland would men have found mea sures to march to I:ke " Let Erin remember the days of old." It is all very unpractical, and visionary, and disheartening to men who think that life ought to be a struggle instead of a regret, but if it had occurred any where else, in Switzerland or Italy,Englishmen would hare recognised that there was poetry in the scene, quick sympathy, warm imagination, capacity for realising abstract ideas among the people who devised it. Those qualities are not so useful perhaps as calmness, and judg ment, and industry, but after all Attica is an ideal us well as Manchester. The object of English Libe rals should be to give the Irisa free scope for the qualities they do possess, to use the great addition they make to the intellectual resources of the Em pire, not to exclaim hopelessly that such qualities are naught only because they are not their own. The hearty conciliation of Ireland, the absorption of the island into the Empire as Scotland has been absorbed, the creation of a unity so cordial that there should be but one Britain, north, west, and south, wourel be worth all our conquests, and it can never be achieved, never be !loped for, till Eng lishmen understand not this or that Irish demon stration, but the nature which makes such demon strations possible. The expectation which now re tards all liberal action for Ireland, that of the emptying and re-peopling of the island, is we believe mere delusion. We cannot forget that we onto re duced her native population to less than a million and a half only to see it advance again unchanged and unchangeable. Even if it were not, if it were conceiveablo that Ireland should one day be filled up with Scotch men,we should have gained in temporary political ease, only to lose infinitely in all that variety which makes up political strength. On the object of the demonstration English opinions will of course differ very widely. O'Connell has, how ever, now been dead long enough for a fair estimate to be formed of his merits and his life, and English. men aro after their wont slowly beginning to shed bit by bit their old opinion of his career. Unscru pulous he certainly was, for the Orientalism of his countrymen, the inability to perceive as well as to sp ak the exact truth, from which the Saxon is, often from sheer dulness, unable to depart, was of course most conspicuous in their representative man. Agitator he certainly was, but it hardly lies in the mouth of the men who carried the Reform Bill and the repeal of the corn laws to pronounce agitation in a good (muse a crime. Hostile to the empire he certainly was, but . he was a Roman Catholic man of genius bred under the old penal laws, and we who believe that the French Opposition have a right not only of agitation but of revolt for freedom, cannot honestly condemn the man who hated a power which placed every native Irishman under disabili ties, which barred up every career, doomed every man with ambition to insignificance, refused even the one right Napoleon concedes—a right to a voice in deciding the amount of property to be surren dered to the State. O'Connell faced us fairly, by action carefully restrained within the limits of the law carried a legislative measure by a use of the right of meeting granted to every opponent of the corn laws, by an organisation not so dangerous as that which in 1831 made of every open space in Birmingham a nightly drilling ground. Possessed of almost royal authority over six millions of his countrymen, taunted and assailed every week by the dominant two millions, refused a voice in Par liament, refused the career open to every Irishman who happened also to be a Protestant, he carried Catholic Emancipation without revolt and without bloodshed, and in so doing added all the potentiali ties of usefulness existing in six million brains to the Imperial strength. It was a grand service done to England as well as Ireland, a heavy crime removed from the conscience not of Ireland but Great Britain and if we have not the self-restraint to perceive the truth, so much the more credit to the Irish that after the man who secured them justice has been absent 17 years they can still meet by scores of thousands to keep his memory green. We English are not playing that, never shall play that part, towards the framer of our Emancipation Act—the Reform Bill of 1831, No reasonable Englishman now doubts that emancipation was an act of justice, and for a nation to repay the man who secured that justice with gratitude, even with exaggerated gratitude, is surely no sign of wart of national heart. Do we blame Neapolitans because they almost canonise Garibaldi ? and why is not kindliness as fair to our poor countrymen of the West—for the Irish are countrymen just as much as the Scotch—as to the race equally Southern, equally Catholic, equally Oriental = who prepare similar demonstrations in Southern Italy P We appreciate the podesta who heads a procession in honour of Garibaldi, why sneer at MarSwiney, because he similarly honours a man who did for'. is people as much, and who can make to himself no return ? Is it because MacSwiney sounds to Jones and Smith and Higgs a comically common-place name P With the latter part of O'Connell's life we buy() of course no sympathy, SALISBURY AND YEOVIL. The report of the directors states that the gross earnings for the half-yeah were £27,465, and for the corresponding half of 1863 £24,208, ahowing an increase of £3,207. The traffic for the year ending the 3Dth of Jana last was equal to £2Bl per mile per week, co £59,288, for the year ending the 30th of June, 1863, was £26 per mile per week. or £54,042, showing an increase of £2 10s per mile per week, or £5,240. After deducting Ncorking expenses. Government duly, interest, and all other charges, a balance temainnd at £10,199, to which was added £2,3,58 from thapneceding half year, making an available sum of J 312,657, out of which the directors recommended the payment of a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent per annum on the preference shares, and at the rate of 43 per cent per annum on the ordinary shares, leaving a balence of 4746. The second line of rails be tween Bradford Abbas junctioh and Yeovil was opened for public) traffic in May last, and the doubling of the entire re maining portion of the line would now be actively proceeded with. The bill empowereing the company to acquire addi tional lands and to raise further capital received the Royal assent on the 23d of June. It was proposed to make the dividend warrants payable on the 22d inst. The capital account showed that £932,733 had been authorised, of which £656,372 had been raised, leaving £276,361 to be raised. The expenditure to the 30th of June amounted to £663,947, leaving a balance of £7,559. ALFORD AND MABLETHORFE, A meeting has been held at Alford in support of this pro ject, Of £60,000 required for the execution of the works only £lO,OOO is solicited in the neighbourhood. The line, it carried out, will open the coast of Sutton, Mablethorpe, &c., to the pleasure seekers of the Midland district. GREAT SOUTHERN AND 'WESTERN OF IRELAND, The report of the directors states that the traffic of the lino for the past half year was in excess of the preceding corresponding half years, but until an improvement took place in the state of Ireland no great increase in the traffic could be expected. The directors recommended the pay ment of dividends at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum on the preference capital, 3 176 per cent. per annum upon the £113,350 ordinary capital held by the Midland Great Wes • tern Railway Company, and £3 per cent. per annum upon the other portion of the ordinary share capital of the com pany, less income tax. The committees of the two Houses of Parliament, notwithstanding a most determined opposi tion on the part of the Midland Great Western Railway Board, had accorded to this company the right of pissing over the Shannon at Athlone by means of the Midland Railway —a privilege which secured nr ever the indepen dence and prosperity of the Great Northern and Wei3tern Railway. Parliament Lad further granted to the company free access to the Great Southern and Western station at Athlone; such direct communication with that company's system could not fail largely to increase the traffic of the company's line. The directors propc.sed giving effect to the monetary clauses of the two bills before re'erred to. with the view of discharging existing liabilities on the line to Cai,tlebar, and of carrying out the Westport and Ballina Extensions. The capital account showed that £187,492 had born expendtd, leaving a balance of £8,023. VALE OF The report of the directors stated that, comparing the re ceipts and expenses of June, 1864, with those of Debember, 1863, the accounts showed an increase of £8,674 in the re ceipts and £4,036 in the expenses. The permanent junc tion with the Great Western Railway at Aberdare was ecru pleted, so far as this company was concerned, in December last. lb Great Western Company, however, only com menced by means of a temporary junction between the two lines, the working of through goods traffic on the 18th of April last, and notwithstanding the most urgent der:ow:lda by the directors., anel promises repeatedly made by the Great Western, are junction for passenger traffic had not yet been completed. This was a great hardship upon the company, inasmuch as it not only leaves to a great extent unproductive the large amount of capital expended upon the works, but deprives them of the benefits which they had fairly anticipated from the larger passenger traffic that would have arisen on the opening of the new route. Upon the completion of the narrow gauge by this company they became entitled to certain payments from the Great West ern Company, which, in accordance with the terms of the agreement, had been referred to Mr I'. E. Harrison, but until that gentleman has given his award the directors wore unable to take credit for the actual amount. They had, however, carried £1,500 to credit of revenul. The available balance for dividend on the ordinary stock, after providing for interest, preferential and other charges, and placing £l,OOO to the credit of a reserve fund, was £15,869. This sum would admit of a dividend of 41 :per cent, per annum, leaving a balance of £7OO for tho next half-year, and the directors recommended the declaration of that di vide nd accordingly. The laying down of a third rail on the main line between Hirwain and Merthyr had been completed, and rapid progress was now being made with the Dare and Amman branches. The directors had en tered into a traffic agreement with the London:and Nortli • Western Railway Company, and had purchased the Aber dare Valley Railway for a payment of 7,5 per cent, per annum on their share capital of £12,000. The capital account showed that £1,461,559 had been ex• pended. The revenue account eor the half-year showed tha £71,225 had been received, end £33750 expended, THT SUTHERLAND MINISTER AND MR. JOHN BRIGHT.—Some years ago Mr. Bright was going to a certain town on the Sutherland coast. While the coach was going through a certain parish, the worthy minister thereof mounted and sat beside John Bright. They began to discuss politics. After a while the minister said, with a twang and dialect we cannot copy, " I'll tell you what it is, we'll nejier have peace until that blackguard, John Bright, be hanged. He is trying to Americanise our institutions, and do away entirely with the glorious consti tution of Great Britain." " Oh," says the M.P., "you would not surely hang him." "Haag him," replies the minister, "I would just hang himself as high as the tree. The blackguard Cobden is bad, but he's 10 degrees worse. Oh, he should be burnt, burnt I" In something of the same strain the conversation went on all the way. After sorvice he was complimented by the clergyman for whom he officiated on the fine audience ho had, " and among the rest you had Mr Bright, M.P. for Birmingham," " Where did he sit ?" says the minister. He was told where the stout M.P. sat. "0 Lord," he exclaimed, " what have I done ? He came down on the coach with me, and I called him a blackguard, and said he should be barned."—Elgios Courant. [ADvEaTre,EErizi—Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Hearty and Healthy—The experience of thousands, both at home and abroad, has amply demonstrated the power pos sessed by these healing and purifying remedies of removing cutaneous eruptions, repairing ulcerations, and relieving fistulas and abscesses. These hidden evils frequently rob life of every comfort through the reluctance of the sufferer to expose his infirmity. Holloway's ointment supersedes such dreaded publicity by pPicing within the reach of all n i,Ain instructions for caring themselves without any den ier, end witnout the necessity of mentioning their malady to an yone. The ointment and pills will likewise cure bad legs, aca bby rashes, an d those blemishes which arise from of mercury, and f rom the UBO of other deleterious the dr useugabs. Repeal is not an act of justice but only a mischiev ous delusion, an effort to degrade Ireland from a component and equal part of a great empire either into the mere dependency she was till Castlereagh terminated her humiliation, or a poverty-stricken and powerless republic. Whilst her rights are pre served, while her share of representation is equal and her sons promoted indifferently with Scotch men and Englishmen, while one Irishman can be Premier and another Viceroy of India, Ireland has no more right of revolt than Wales, or Cornwall, or Lincolnshire, and the right of every nation to exist would justify any measure of repression. But it i just a little odd that the men who so savagely cene sure O'Connell for advising Repeal by moral force are those who justify Mr. Davis in securing Re. peal by arms. Is slavery the higher law which hallows every act undertaken in its defence. O'Con nell distinctly believed that the divergence between the two islands, the difference of race, creed, and aspirations, of history and of sympathies, of manners and of necessities, rendered a genuine unity hope less, and he drew the corollary that for the weaker party separation was the alternative. That separa tion he strove to secure morally, by the machinery which, it having already secured emancipation, he looked upon as irresistible. He was, we believe, utterly in the wrong, wrong in his avowed object, which was independence, wrong in his secret object, which was, we fear, union with France, wrong in his choice of machinery, most wrong of all in be lieving that it was possible for an English Ministry to consent to his plans. But Ireland, which suffers from all the differences he so keenly perceived, from that haughty want of appreciation we display towards all whom we do not comprehend, may well be forgiven for honouring the man who suggested an unwise course out of abounding love for her, who holding in the Imperial Legislature the balance of power was willing to sacrifice a position such as no Irish Catholic ever attained in order to secure, as he thought, the future of the people who believed that having secured them justice he could win for them Utopia. He failed, as he deserved in such a cause to fail, but to our minds the fact most creditable to the people of Ireland in all this demonstration is that O'Connell having once manifestly, egregiously, ridiculously failed, they have forgotten the grievous failure to remember only the grand success. When we are as sympathetic to our great men, place Cromwell by the side of Elizabeth, the man who won the Reform Bill by the side of the man who won Waterloo, we shall have earned a new claim to the admiration of the world. And when we do we doubt not we shall feel the American sneer at our admiration for such doubtful excellence, as Irishmen feel now our sneers at their appreciation of O'Con nell. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE LAST EVENTS OF THE WAR IN AMERICA.—The military move ments in America has never been more interesting than at the present moment. The most important of the operations is the siege of Atlanta. It is sup posed that Johnston thought it prudent to abandon the town, and that the appointment of Hood to the chief command represented the resolution of the Confederate Government to risk a battle for the maintenance of the position. The whole progress of the campaign proves the great superiority of the Federal force, and Sherman appears to have pro fited by his advantages with remarkable skill and daring. For more than a hundred miles, he turned every defensive position which impeded his ad vance, and he reached the outskirts of Atlanta without having been forced to engage in a single pitched pattle. As the Confederates were, as usual, weak in cavalry, the Northern horse passed with impunity southward, and in a wide circuit through Georgia and Alabama they destroyed railroads and property, and temporarily interrupted the com munication between Atlanta anu Montgomery. In the meantime, General Sherman, after crossing the Chattahoochie, approached the suburbs of Atlanta, when he was attacked by Hood with the usual vigour of the Confederate leaders, and for a time was exposed to considerable danger. Two days afterwards a general engagement ended with re sults which are for the present doubtful, as both parties claim the victory. As Sherman's official despatches have been withheld from publication, there would be sufficient reason to trust in the Confederate account, if it were not also stated that Atlanta was undergoing bombardment, and that a part of the town was already in flames. The capture of the place would complete the triumph of the Federal arms i n th e W est , an d Atlanta, like Chattanooga, might in its turn become the base of a new advance through the yet unconquered regions of the Confederacy. On the other hand, a check in flicted on Sherman might involve dangerous conse quences, as the outlying forces of Wheeler and of Forrest are at last moving towards the Federal rear, end it is stated that the Confederates have taken a Federal camp at Decatur. The American habit of repeating popular names of places causes frequent confusion, and the friends of the North endeavour to persuade themselves that General Hardee's enterprise has been directed against Decatur in Alabama. It is, however, far more probable that the Confederates are endeavour ing to cut the enemy's communications at Decatur in Georgia than that they are gratuitously fighting in the heart of their own country with an enemy who is not known to have found his way to the south of Atlanta. If Longstreet's corps has really been detached from Virginia to Georgia, the Federal superiority of force may perhaps be reversed. The knowledge that such a movement had taken place would account for Grant's renewed activity, though it is difficult to conjecture his reasons for his recent change of position. His Northe rn a d m i rers f or some weeks asserted,with vociferous unanimity that the Lieut.-General would starve Richmond into surrender by operating with his left on the pivot of his position before Petersburg. But he found it ne cessary or convenient to move on his right, and to place his troops on both sides of the James River, in the neighbourhood of Fort Darling, which is on the right bank, and within ten miles from Rich mond. It would seem that the task of Lee and Beauregard must have been greatly simplified by the change. From later accounts it appears that Grant must have afterwards returned, with at least a portion of his force, to his former position before Petersburg; for he is stated to have successfully assaulted a line of Confederate entrenchments at that place, though the ultimate result of the en gagement, which was still pending, is not yet known. It may possibly b e st ill hi s i ntention to make his main attack on Richmond from the south, but such a course would be by no means free from risk. Fort Darling repelled M'Clellan's gunboats in 18G2 with little difficulty, and the river above is defended by the Confederate rams. If Grant attempts to cut the Danville railway in the imcaeaiate neigh bourhood of Richmond he will expose his flank and rear to the attacks of the garrison of Peters burg. The direct line of advance on the lc ft bank of James River, by Malvern and White Oak Swamp, has already been considered and disapproved. Even the correspondents and writers of the New York papers will scarcely pledge themselves to a ninth or tenth plan of campaign, after adopting all Grant's previous combinations with enthusiastic ap proval. There is no reason to suppose that the de fences of Richmond have been neglected in the direction of Malvern or Fort Darling ; but it is not impossible that the garrison may have been largely reduced by detachments to Northern Vir ginia, and perhaps to Georgia. If General Lee felt himself safe in his fortifications at Richmond, he might be glad to economise his stores by movements which at the same time promised considerable mili tary advantage. THE " EXAMINER" ON THE HEALTH OP WATER. ING PLACES.—Some of the watering places are very much displeased, and not without reason, at the figure they make in the Registrars General's tables of mortality. And necessarily there is fallacy in these accounts, for it is impossible to distinguish the deaths of visitors from the deaths of residents ; and the former swell the death-rate in some in stances very considerably, and at the same time unduly as regards the question of salubrity. We will take two extreme examples, Brighton and Bath, which have the high death-rate of twenty in the thousand. To compare that death-rate with the death-rate of a rural district would be like compa r . ing the death -rate of a hospital with that of a pro portionate number of private houses. Brighton is the great sea-side hospital of London. The ailing and convalescent go to Brighton to get health and strength, and the incurable go there for th e i r last chance, and to die. It is probably b eca h se the place is so healthy that its death -rate is raised so high by the mortality of its . invalid v i s i tors. It is impossible to traverse the cliffs without s ee i ng b oth the health the air will give, and the stages of diseases and decay which are past cure. Brighton is, indeed, the incurable patient's forlorn hope. The death-rate, which is swell e d b y this class, a not be taken as the criteri on of the ge neral sanitary condition ; and the same remark applies to three other places which have the same high rate, probably from the Same cause—Ton bridge Wells, Buxton, and Malvern, all haunts of invalids. Bath is anot h er example,' but not quite of the same class. It is the refuge of the aged, and balks death of m any w h o have long passed the ap pointed threescore and ten. Dryden says of his good parson— , O s f sixty years ho se eme d , and well might last 1.0 sixty more, b ut that he lived too fast. A description which must not be understood in the present sense of the phrase, as the model pastor 4, made almost a s i n of abstinence," and lived too fast in speeding to heaven. Neither this sort of excess, nor any other, is to be seen in the folks who well might last to a hundred in Bath; but we be lieve that temperate good living contributes much to the extraordinary longevity of the place, and nowhere is marketing better and cheaper. But j the inevitable hour; must strike sooner or later, and the city of the aged has a corresponding death rate. And here let us sugmest that a column of average . age would throw light on the death rates , and serve to distinguish from unhealthy places, Pluc e ', sought for health and prolonging life. The Isle of Wight has the lowest death rate in compensation for all its other rates of the very highest. If ael live too fast th ere it i s i n t h e wa y o f Dryden 's goo d parson, but the abstinence is not indeed almost a sin, but very much of a necessity, and to this, perhaps, the standard of health is referrible. No one sits s too long at table, and the tough meats and stringy fowls make a case of rep l et i on an u tter i m possie bility. We can imagine nothing more advisable_ for the high live r th an a course o f the Isle of Wight. It will fine him down better than any training, and lighten in person not less than in pocket, which is saying much indeed. THE "LONDON REVIEW" ON THE CLOSE OF TO DANISH WAR.—We have now before us the official text of the preliminaries of peace COn' eluded between Austria and Prussia on the one band and Denmark on the other. This adds little to the information we had previously received through the medium of the telegraph. But undoubtedly the, details do no t i n any degree soften the harshness of the substantial terms which have been exacted from the weaker and defeated Power. The arrangement by which D enmar k surren d ers port i ons o f Jutland' in exchange fo r a so-called equivalent served out of Schles w i g , i s more disadvantageous to the Northern Power than we had hoped might prove to be the case . N or can there be any give one opinion as to the determination which Austria and Prussia have shown to exact the full pound of fl esh from their victim, by stipulating that wha tever troops they may ch oose to reta i n i n J u tl a nd, unti l e the signature of th e fi nal treaty of peace , Shall be fed and lodged a t the expense of that unhappy P rn• i vince. It w ou ld only have been a little dece nt l after takin g so meh territory, they had sho wn a slight amount of gen eros it y i n the matter o f poued s shillings, and pence. But magnanimity seen!! be a virtue unknown at Berlin and Vienna• li av i ; ing robbed their enemy of his estate , the Germ% Powers are not satisfied until they have picked h l . B pocket also. But it is no use to dwell upon t . h d i . matter. All is over so far as Denmark is coneer e ` ; ,, The interesting question remains as to the mode, clear which the spoils are to he appropriated. It is uL e "' s enough from the miserably abortive meeting held few days since at Kiel, that Prussia is already try ing to set on foot in Schleswig-Holstein a 133° L ; ment for the annexation of the Duchies to her e ," he dominions. But it is not surprising to find that d people of these provinces are by no means by an ardent desire for such an arrangen 3 eh t ' however, M. von Bismarck cannot obtain poP 3 - fle support he is just the man to do without it. On one point it is understood that both he and the Austrian , statesmen have made up their minds.—that the Diet shall have no voice in determining the destinati..o. of conquests which were made in its name. oro2: nary lite we should give a very hard nam e to th e conduct of an agent who obtained possession of pro perty en behalf of his principal and then cool l y appropriated it to his own use. But it Would bei absurd to cast in the teeth of Austria and Prussia reproaches founded on a breach of that COeorues punetratem honesty which they discarded at a very early sta g e of the recent transactions. We may take it if granted that they will do what seems best for then_ own interests, without regard to any considerations which are not supported by an army in the field.eee That Bavaria, Hanover, Saxony, and the other small States, which are now fretting th e Diet, fumi n g' Pr e testing, and threatening all kinds of mo tions in Diet, will appeal to force in defence of their right, to a voice in disposing of the plunder of Denmark' we do not for an instant believe. In spite willt talk and elaborate despatches e their troo f from fore long be civilly or uncivilly ejected even rhat Holstein, and then we may possibly be toke wmay Austria and P r u ss i a h ave decided upon. O r t e . l suit those Pow ers t o concea l the i r private arratTtle ments for a time ; an d i n t h at case we have 1 its e, doubt that Europ which has already c at ried forbearance so far, will carr y it a littl e f ar ther, and abstain from making any unpleasant inquiri es on the subject. Nothing seems let for us but the exe i r d cise of a r a th er i gnom i n i ous pat i ence . Our "1 consolation must be that England has already is this unhappy b us i ness l os t as much in character an a influence as she well can do. COUNTRY MARKETS. GRANTHAM—SATURDAY. Upon the whole wheat will be a fair average crop ID this quarter. Barley will turn out better than was expected. —Old white wheat,::46s to 48s ; red, 37s to 42s per 365 t.; new white, 44s to 48s ; red, 398 to 445. Malting barley. —s to —s per qr ; grinding, 27s to 308 ; oats, old, 23s t) 265; new, 198 to24s; beans, 34s to 40s; peas, 345 . t0 375. LEICESTER-SATURDAY. A fair show of wheat, and prices fully is to 2s per qr over last week's rates. Scarcely any barley showing, at about late rates. Oats sold readily. Beans scarce, but firm• —Old white wheat, 46s to 50s; red, 43s to 46s per 30 stone. New white, 44s to 52s per 36 stone. Malting barley, new, 32s to 34s per qr.; grinding, 28s to 30s; old oats, 24s to 295; new oats, 21s to 23s per 24 stone. Beaus , old, 40s to 448 per 38 stone ; flour, 34s to 395. per 20 stone. NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. A middling show of wheat, which met a firm sale, and late prices were fully supported. Barley limited in SUP ply, and trade inactive, at late prices. Oats met a tolerably good trade, at full prices. Beans in favour of sellers. —White wheat, from 46s to 51s:; red wheat, 40s to 4 6 5 , Barley—malting, 30s to 37s ; grinding, 28s to 30s. Oats, old, at 26s to 30s Od; new, 20s to 265. Beans sold at 405 to 43s per qr, ; new, 35s to 3sB. Flour, fine, 32s to 36s ; super, 38s to 40s:per 20 stone. NORWICH—SATITIMAY. There was a thin attendance again to-day, with only a limited supply o f w h ea t, and last week's prices must be quoted. White wheat. 45s to 46a Red wheat 41s to 425 Malting barley ... 3.5 s to 36s Chevalier barley 33s to 345 Distilling do . 29s to 308 j Oats. 24s to 26a Flour, 28s Od to —s ed per sack from the miller. YORK— SATURDAY. A fair supply of wheat on offer from the farmers this morning, and the attendance was moderate. Business was still inactive, and the prices of last week were not in all instances made. Barley scarce, and commanded fully late rates. Beans were in limited show, with a fair demand. Wheat, red .......39s to 445 1 Oats.... 2os to 243 White do .458 to 485 Beans 35s to 38a Barley .24s to 28s Peas ....—s to ---9 Malt, 58s to 60s per qr.; ryo, 30s per qr ; flour, 31s to 348 per sack. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. Aug 1 via Marseilles Aug. 1 , 4 '. 3razil and C a p e V er d s , by British packet Sept. '... Cape of G oo d Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Aug . 9t. lltuna, Penang, and Singapore, vi a Southampt e n Aug. i , -; via Marseilles Aug. 12. Falkland Islands.. Gibraltar, via S ou th amp t on .. Aug. S. India (Calcutt a ), an d C ey l on , v i a S out h ampton Aug. 1.3, via Marseilles Aug' 95 India (Bombay), via South am pt on - ' via Marseilles Aug. V. Portugal Sept. '• Malta, Egypt, and Aden, v i a S out h ampton Aug. is. via Marseilles Aug. . 1 , - ,. ' ' Newfoundland ,Aug.. ' l ' Oporto and Vigo .. U. S. and British N. A mer i ca, b y Brit. packet... • A •-u- z ' 17. by U.S. packet... • 9, by Canadian packet. Aug• 19. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, j Aug. 1 3 ' California. and British Columbia. CRYSTAL PALACE.—HALF-CROWN DAY, SAT DlY.—Admissions on p ayment, 1,19 4 ; ditt o by o°6s° tickets, 2,448. Total visitors, 3,642. ____-.—.-- e uckwoßTß.—On the n at Fe an P 12 Births. i s inst, D - CI 1 ds Mni lig!, the wife of Wtn. Duckworth, Esq ,of a daughter. ... liorE.—On the 9th inst., at Ten 'South Wales, the woe of Captain Charles Webley Hope, Royal Navy, of A son. MELVILLE.— On the 11th inst , at Branston Rectory , Lin coln, the Hon. M rs . A . S . Leslie Melville, of a daughter. PALMER.. On the 12th inst., at Bruntsfield House, Finch ley-road, M rs , S amue l Palmer, of a daughter. Marriages. BRUNTON —KNIGHT.--On the 10th inst., at St, Leonard'd Church, St. Leonard's - on -Sea, W. E. Brunton, Es q ., C.E., to Fanny Wright, widow of the late It. G. Knight, Esq., C.E. soigyn.de,to.n,b,aarEtriSssqate.i,nr-EtaGet -at 11. 0t S h Eu . Paley, 12th Lancers, son PA l L h Enr n — ve ß r. o s ir q p na n r rr e . , — C O ap a ta l n he Anne,of t Le only late daughter Thomas ofP Paley, Esq ,, square. Deaths. ArrLEBEE.—On the 11th inat,, at the Vicarage, Whissen dine, _Rutland, the Rey,ilenry Applebee, M,A , a ged 51. ATHINsoN.—On the 12th inst., at Lewisham-road, Now' cross, Mr. Joseph E. Atkinson, aged 49. C&soN. — On the 12th inst., at Charlton Villa, Blackheath , Airs. Jane Cason, aged 77. DILKE.—On the 10th inst., at Alice Holt, near FarnheWo Charles Wentworth Dilke, aged 75. HARDIE.—On th e 11th inet., at W. C. Hardie, Esq., lat e of 6, Wo od - street, , ,Cheapside, aged 54. HILL.—On the 9th inst., at Bath, Commander Semi. Hill, R.N., aged 74. RAYNER.—On the 11th inst., at his residence, in E l y , Sr lfe N ar Cambs., Henry Rayner, Esq., aged 79. .871;(2 Athnenl,lLthadiynsst.y, Sydney, e T y l:e w ß if o e u o r f ne s , i n r e s a v r Sydney, aged 68. London: Printed and Fri)!'shed by ISTI -- LLIAPIA NDI4I:I ; I I2 3. of No. 112, Strand, Printer at TUE SUN Office 1 "• Strand, in the Precinct of , the Savoy; in the ColuttY X iddlcieakrillonday, Atigut lg, 1801# 1 1